"Google shouldn't be in the business of promoting racist stereotypes," Ujala Sehgal, the communications coordinator for AALDEF, told TheWrap. "The 'Make Me Asian' app is one sure way for Google to alienate all of its Asian American customers with its offensive attempts at humor. If this app does not violate Google's policies on hate speech -- as it claims -- then it should take another look at its policies."

Washington, D.C.-based pastor Peter Chin has started a petition on Change.org to have the app removed. By Wednesday afternoon, it had garnered more than 2,500 signatures.

"Now you too can be Asian by putting a rice paddy hat and fu manchu mustache on your profile picture, complete with slanty eyes and yellow skin!...because that's all it takes to represent the four billion Asians in the world, a stupid hat and facial hair," Chin wrote in the petition. "Tell Google that these apps perpetuate hateful and offensive racial stereotypes that have been used to humiliate Asians and Native Americans for centuries, and you want both apps removed immediately from Google Play."

The Angry Asian Man blog also criticized the app and linked to the petition.

"Oh hells no," a post from November said. "At the risk of giving this damn thing more attention than it deserves, behold this ridiculously racist Android app:Make Me Asian."

Users who have downloaded "Make Me Asian" are largely giving it a thumbs down, complaining that in addition to being racist the app is "buggy" and that "none of the features work." The majority of reviews have given it one star out of five.